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The principal registry for Border Collies in the United States is the American Border Collie Association (ABCA), which is dedicated to the preservation of the traditional working dog. [40] The breed was also recognised in 1995 by the American Kennel Club (AKC) after occupying the AKC's Miscellaneous Class for over 50 years.
Cannas became very popular in Victorian times as garden plants, and were grown widely in France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. [ 9 ] [ 22 ] Some cultivars from this time, including a sterile hybrid, usually referred to as Canna × ehemannii , are still commercially available. [ 28 ]
In order to introduce colours to the large white calla lilies, like the many colours available in the dwarf summer calla lilies, attempts have been made to hybridise Z. aethiopica with Z. elliotiana. These have resulted in albino progeny, which are non-viable. [citation needed]
Zantedeschia are relatively hardy plants, but some are more winter-hardy than others. In this regard there may be considered two groups, a hardy outdoor group with large white flowers (arum lilies) and less hardy group with white-spotted leaves and flowers in many colours (calla lilies), such as yellow, orange, pink and purple. [17]
Zantedeschia albomaculata, commonly called the spotted calla lily [2] (although Calla is a genus unto itself) or the white spotted arum, ...
Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Canna, 1919, High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Painted in oil on a 13 in × 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (33.0 cm × 24.1 cm) board, the red canna lily framed by green and dark yellow background colors at the top and right of the painting and dark blue at the bottom and left. [9]
The Dog, the Border Collie of the comic strip Footrot Flats. Colleen, a female collie in Road Rovers. Nana, a female Border Collie in Snow Dogs; Shadow, collie from Enid Blyton's book Shadow the Sheepdog. The collie type is not identified in the text, but the illustrations in an early edition look vaguely like a border collie.
Canna species have been categorised by two different taxonomists in the course of the last three decades. They are Paul Maas, from the Netherlands [1] [2] [3] and Nobuyuki Tanaka from Japan. [4]